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Wildfire

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Unknown Under what meteorological and fuel conditions does pyroconvection (fire-driven convection) become self-organizing into pyrocumulonimbus storms, and can operational coupled fire-atmosphere models predict this transition with sufficient lead time for evacuation decisions? u-pyroconvection-prediction-coupled-fire-atmosphere-models

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Hypothesis The climate-fire positive feedback loop (warming → drought → more fire → CO₂ release → more warming) will cause burned area and carbon emissions from wildfire to accelerate nonlinearly under 2°C warming scenarios, exceeding IPCC AR6 projections that treat fire as a linear response to climate forcing. high

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